Finance Contract Job Trends in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 7,930 5,593 7,132
As % of all contract jobs in England 18.70% 22.95% 19.18%
As % of the General category 34.35% 35.73% 33.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,069 3,713 4,966
10th Percentile £356 £355 £361
25th Percentile £447 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £590
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.54% -1.67%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £725
90th Percentile £800 £825 £838
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 101 242
10th Percentile £14.96 £18.20 £12.81
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £15.04
Median hourly rate £33.50 £40.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.25% +45.45% -1.72%
75th Percentile £54.11 £65.00 £38.12
90th Percentile £85.00 £76.25 £56.25
UK median hourly rate £33.50 £40.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -16.25% +48.15% -10.00%

All General Skills
England

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 23,088 15,652 21,315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.44% 64.22% 57.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,118 10,057 13,646
10th Percentile £313 £281 £281
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% -1.57% -3.03%
75th Percentile £630 £645 £650
90th Percentile £745 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,596 729 1,825
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.25 £12.88
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.15 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.45% -10.63% +3.14%
75th Percentile £63.75 £53.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £67.45
UK median hourly rate £31.46 £28.00 £30.06
% change year-on-year +12.36% -6.85% -5.83%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Finance job vacancy trend in England

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 9 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 9 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the England region over the 6 months to 9 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London 0 4,781 £575 -4.17% 1,895
North of England +2 1,243 £492 +5.81% 627
North West +5 659 £463 +2.78% 340
South East -2 650 £500 -4.31% 855
Midlands -1 616 £500 +7.24% 366
Yorkshire 0 540 £525 +10.24% 223
West Midlands +1 433 £502 +0.30% 227
South West -2 366 £525 - 253
East of England +1 193 £520 -9.57% 188
East Midlands -1 178 £468 +6.97% 139
North East -15 45 £494 +9.12% 70
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 282 (3.56%) Confluence
2 200 (2.52%) SharePoint
3 76 (0.96%) Apache Spark
4 58 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
5 45 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
6 44 (0.55%) Apache
7 26 (0.33%) SAS
8 25 (0.32%) CMS
9 20 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
10 15 (0.19%) CICS
11 13 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 12 (0.15%) Appian
13 11 (0.14%) Camunda
13 11 (0.14%) IIS
14 10 (0.13%) Ethereum
14 10 (0.13%) Jupyter
15 8 (0.10%) HCL Notes
15 8 (0.10%) Mendix
15 8 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 6 (0.076%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 447 (5.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 174 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
3 156 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 148 (1.87%) Microsoft Project
5 105 (1.32%) MS Visio
6 49 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
7 33 (0.42%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.063%) Trello
9 4 (0.050%) Oracle Smart View
9 4 (0.050%) Sketch
10 3 (0.038%) Notion
11 2 (0.025%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.025%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.025%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.025%) InVision
11 2 (0.025%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.013%) MicroStation
12 1 (0.013%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.013%) UXPin
12 1 (0.013%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 281 (3.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 106 (1.34%) NetSuite
3 94 (1.19%) Oracle Payables
4 81 (1.02%) Oracle Receivables
5 78 (0.98%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 68 (0.86%) Oracle ERP
7 43 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
7 43 (0.54%) Oracle General Ledger
8 39 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
9 37 (0.47%) Oracle Financials
10 36 (0.45%) SAP FI
11 35 (0.44%) Aladdin
12 31 (0.39%) SAP CO
13 29 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
14 27 (0.34%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
15 25 (0.32%) Unit4 Business World
16 22 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
17 21 (0.26%) SAP BRIM
18 19 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
18 19 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,257 (15.85%) Azure
2 908 (11.45%) AWS
3 555 (7.00%) Power Platform
4 390 (4.92%) GCP
5 276 (3.48%) SaaS
6 270 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
7 260 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
8 208 (2.62%) GitHub
9 194 (2.45%) Dynamics 365
10 153 (1.93%) Snowflake
11 148 (1.87%) Entra ID
12 129 (1.63%) Serverless
13 103 (1.30%) Power Automate
14 102 (1.29%) Amazon S3
15 98 (1.24%) OCI
16 89 (1.12%) Azure Data Factory
17 84 (1.06%) OpenShift
18 81 (1.02%) dbt
19 79 (1.00%) Microsoft Copilot
20 77 (0.97%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 147 (1.85%) Firewall
2 117 (1.48%) Network Security
3 67 (0.84%) DNS
3 67 (0.84%) VPN
4 56 (0.71%) TCP/IP
5 55 (0.69%) WAN
6 37 (0.47%) BGP
7 31 (0.39%) HTTP
7 31 (0.39%) LAN
8 29 (0.37%) SSL
9 28 (0.35%) DHCP
10 26 (0.33%) OSPF
11 24 (0.30%) MPLS
11 24 (0.30%) Multicast
12 21 (0.26%) Cisco ASA
12 21 (0.26%) SD-WAN
13 19 (0.24%) VSAN
14 18 (0.23%) VLAN
15 16 (0.20%) DMZ
15 16 (0.20%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 474 (5.98%) Power BI
2 220 (2.77%) SQL Server
3 213 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
4 154 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
5 141 (1.78%) Metadata
6 137 (1.73%) Relational Database
7 124 (1.56%) Tableau
8 113 (1.42%) Data Lake
9 85 (1.07%) NoSQL
10 71 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
11 67 (0.84%) Big Data
12 65 (0.82%) Oracle Database
13 55 (0.69%) BigQuery
14 46 (0.58%) MongoDB
15 45 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 42 (0.53%) Power Query
16 42 (0.53%) Snowflake Schema
17 41 (0.52%) Delta Lake
18 39 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
19 34 (0.43%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 596 (7.52%) JIRA
2 188 (2.37%) Git
3 142 (1.79%) Jenkins
4 90 (1.13%) GitLab
5 49 (0.62%) JUnit
6 46 (0.58%) Cucumber
7 35 (0.44%) Selenium
8 28 (0.35%) Postman
9 27 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
10 25 (0.32%) SonarQube
10 25 (0.32%) Visual Studio
11 24 (0.30%) MLflow
12 19 (0.24%) REST Assured
13 17 (0.21%) ERwin
13 17 (0.21%) Maven
13 17 (0.21%) Zephyr
14 14 (0.18%) Bitbucket
14 14 (0.18%) Hudson
15 13 (0.16%) TeamCity
16 11 (0.14%) Mockito
General
1 2,312 (29.16%) Social Skills
2 1,482 (18.69%) Banking
3 1,043 (13.15%) Analytical Skills
4 439 (5.54%) Public Sector
5 342 (4.31%) Legal
6 321 (4.05%) Financial Institution
7 300 (3.78%) Investment Banking
8 280 (3.53%) Front Office
9 262 (3.30%) Retail
10 251 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
11 199 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
12 188 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
13 141 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 133 (1.68%) Local Government
14 133 (1.68%) Manufacturing
15 131 (1.65%) Law
16 123 (1.55%) Marketing
17 120 (1.51%) General Ledger
18 115 (1.45%) Billing
19 114 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,173 (14.79%) Analyst
2 893 (11.26%) Senior
3 832 (10.49%) Lead
4 810 (10.21%) Developer
5 733 (9.24%) Architect
6 627 (7.91%) Project Manager
7 608 (7.67%) Business Analyst
8 502 (6.33%) Consultant
9 306 (3.86%) Solutions Architect
10 272 (3.43%) Data Engineer
11 209 (2.64%) Senior Manager
12 190 (2.40%) Financial Analyst
13 167 (2.11%) Data Analyst
14 166 (2.09%) Finance Manager
15 163 (2.06%) Accountant
16 153 (1.93%) Programme Manager
17 152 (1.92%) Software Engineer
18 150 (1.89%) Senior Developer
19 149 (1.88%) Java Developer
20 140 (1.77%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 237 (2.99%) .NET
2 236 (2.98%) REST
3 225 (2.84%) Kafka
4 215 (2.71%) React
5 182 (2.30%) Oracle Fusion
6 176 (2.22%) Middleware
7 140 (1.77%) Spring Boot
8 139 (1.75%) Spring
9 120 (1.51%) RESTful
10 97 (1.22%) PySpark
11 96 (1.21%) Node.js
12 88 (1.11%) AngularJS
12 88 (1.11%) Redux
13 75 (0.95%) JSON
14 71 (0.90%) OAuth
15 70 (0.88%) XML
16 64 (0.81%) CSS
17 59 (0.74%) HTML
18 58 (0.73%) Pandas
19 55 (0.69%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 359 (4.53%) Onboarding
2 338 (4.26%) Product Ownership
3 322 (4.06%) Cloud Native
4 224 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
5 190 (2.40%) Management Information System
6 167 (2.11%) Data Structures
7 150 (1.89%) Derivative
8 146 (1.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 142 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
10 141 (1.78%) Fixed Income
11 135 (1.70%) Data Centre
11 135 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
12 108 (1.36%) Equities
13 106 (1.34%) Virtual Team
14 97 (1.22%) Public Cloud
15 95 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
16 91 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
17 83 (1.05%) AI Agents
18 82 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
19 74 (0.93%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 275 (3.47%) Windows
2 252 (3.18%) Linux
3 133 (1.68%) Unix
4 63 (0.79%) Windows Server
5 38 (0.48%) Windows 10
6 36 (0.45%) Solaris
7 30 (0.38%) Apple iOS
8 28 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 26 (0.33%) Android
10 25 (0.32%) zOS
11 18 (0.23%) Mac OS
12 16 (0.20%) AIX
13 7 (0.088%) Windows Server 2012
14 6 (0.076%) Oracle Linux
14 6 (0.076%) VMS
14 6 (0.076%) Windows Server 2019
15 4 (0.050%) HPUX
15 4 (0.050%) MVS
15 4 (0.050%) SUSE
15 4 (0.050%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,646 (20.76%) Agile
2 1,643 (20.72%) Stakeholder Management
3 1,116 (14.07%) Migration
4 1,038 (13.09%) Problem-Solving
5 892 (11.25%) Continuous Improvement
6 859 (10.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 852 (10.74%) DevOps
8 814 (10.26%) CI/CD
9 802 (10.11%) ERP
10 796 (10.04%) AI
11 778 (9.81%) Analytics
12 721 (9.09%) Project Management
13 684 (8.63%) Decision-Making
14 661 (8.34%) Data Modelling
15 650 (8.20%) Roadmaps
15 650 (8.20%) Validation
16 615 (7.76%) Business Intelligence
17 603 (7.60%) User Acceptance Testing
18 571 (7.20%) Change Management
19 524 (6.61%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1,118 (14.10%) SQL
2 968 (12.21%) Python
3 543 (6.85%) Java
4 343 (4.33%) C#
5 222 (2.80%) JavaScript
6 208 (2.62%) TypeScript
7 174 (2.19%) PowerShell
8 88 (1.11%) C++
9 72 (0.91%) Bash
10 69 (0.87%) PL/SQL
11 67 (0.84%) Go
12 63 (0.79%) T-SQL
13 55 (0.69%) Shell Script
14 51 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 43 (0.54%) Scala
16 39 (0.49%) VBA
17 28 (0.35%) Bicep
18 27 (0.34%) Apex Code
18 27 (0.34%) Kotlin
18 27 (0.34%) Rust
Qualifications
1 671 (8.46%) Degree
2 613 (7.73%) Security Cleared
3 434 (5.47%) SC Cleared
4 209 (2.64%) ACCA
5 199 (2.51%) PMP
6 186 (2.35%) CIMA
7 167 (2.11%) PMI Certification
8 143 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
9 130 (1.64%) CISSP
10 126 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
11 78 (0.98%) CISM
12 76 (0.96%) DV Cleared
12 76 (0.96%) Master's Degree
13 70 (0.88%) Azure Certification
14 56 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
15 43 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
16 41 (0.52%) AWS Certification
17 35 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 30 (0.38%) ISTQB
19 29 (0.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 486 (6.13%) Data Quality
2 359 (4.53%) QA
3 299 (3.77%) PMO
4 277 (3.49%) GDPR
5 156 (1.97%) NIST
6 132 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 109 (1.37%) IFRS
8 95 (1.20%) SLA
9 89 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 83 (1.05%) GRC
11 72 (0.91%) Accessibility
12 63 (0.79%) PCI DSS
13 57 (0.72%) GAAP
14 54 (0.68%) ISO 20022
15 35 (0.44%) NCSC
16 34 (0.43%) PSD2
17 33 (0.42%) SEPA
18 29 (0.37%) IFRS 17
19 26 (0.33%) SOC 2
19 26 (0.33%) Solvency II
System Software
1 265 (3.34%) Docker
2 156 (1.97%) Active Directory
3 51 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (0.35%) vSphere
5 25 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
7 15 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
8 14 (0.18%) VMware NSX
9 11 (0.14%) Hyper-V
10 10 (0.13%) NFS
11 9 (0.11%) RACF
12 6 (0.076%) GPFS
12 6 (0.076%) KVM
13 5 (0.063%) Microsoft App-V
14 3 (0.038%) GridGain
14 3 (0.038%) Oracle RAC
14 3 (0.038%) SRDF
15 2 (0.025%) ACF2
15 2 (0.025%) Ceph
15 2 (0.025%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 364 (4.59%) Kubernetes
2 228 (2.88%) Terraform
3 122 (1.54%) Ansible
4 79 (1.00%) Grafana
5 68 (0.86%) Prometheus
6 63 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
7 47 (0.59%) SCCM
8 37 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
9 20 (0.25%) Control-M
10 18 (0.23%) FortiGate
11 17 (0.21%) vRealize
12 15 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 15 (0.19%) Progress Chef
13 14 (0.18%) Nessus
14 13 (0.16%) AirWatch
15 12 (0.15%) Argo
15 12 (0.15%) Puppet
16 11 (0.14%) CASB
17 9 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
17 9 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,032 (13.01%) Microsoft
2 658 (8.30%) Oracle
3 624 (7.87%) SAP
4 272 (3.43%) ServiceNow
5 236 (2.98%) Databricks
6 192 (2.42%) Salesforce
7 178 (2.24%) Google
8 114 (1.44%) Workday
9 111 (1.40%) Splunk
10 104 (1.31%) VMware
11 94 (1.19%) Cisco
12 83 (1.05%) CyberArk
13 82 (1.03%) IBM
14 62 (0.78%) Citrix
15 56 (0.71%) OpenAI
16 53 (0.67%) Ariba
16 53 (0.67%) Sage
17 50 (0.63%) Bloomberg
18 45 (0.57%) IFS
19 44 (0.55%) Murex